Famous Quotes & Sayings

We know this is going to be the beginning of a long and fruitful partnership with General Motors.

Matt LaPorta

You know, I thought at the beginning of the season that we would have a better club than we're showing right now. This is stuff that a lot of people on the team have never dealt with before, failure. It's tough, and it's something new for a lot of guys.

We've been hearing since the beginning of the season, 'Oh, next month. Oh, next month. Oh, next month.' Here we are, and we still don't have an owner. It could hurt a lot because a lot of guys have their hands tied again.

We've been having a dialogue since the beginning of January. We're hopeful it's going to get done. He's obviously a guy we'd like to keep in an Oriole uniform for a number of years.

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

We got to learn how to start a football game. We have to start faster out of the blocks. The beginning wasn't good. Right now, we're not a very good football team.

We gave up or something. We came out strong at the beginning of the first quarter and third quarter, then at the end we just died out. We didn't have no energy down the stretch.

We are now beginning to see the benefits of all that hard work,

We got off to a slow start but played hard on defense and tried to take the fight to them. They're a tough team. They have so many weapons, inside with Brunner and outside with their shooters. They stretched us out and got some open looks at the beginning of the game.

We got off to a slow start at the beginning of the year, ... We're starting to hit on three, four cylinders.

Scott Skiles

We fouled a lot tonight, we had a night where we were just flat not into it right from the beginning of the game. And really a pretty pitiful effort.

Jerry Sloan

We fought at the beginning of the second half and then they just annihilated us. They defended us well and we had a very tough time scoring inside. If we keep playing like that, we won't get into the playoffs.

Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.

We made clear that we want to create a really substantial new beginning in the relationship between Germany and Iran, ... Of course, we talked about subjects on which we differ, and we made our views clear.

We had a little nerves at the beginning and they did, too, because they came out sloppy. We played pretty tight in the first half but in the second half, we played like we knew how to.

We had a little more depth. We had a lot of freshmen move up. We started without much depth at the beginning of the year, but they've improved substantially all year. The freshmen who scored in the meet gave us a big boost.

We had to turn it up and play hard. Coach told us at halftime that we had to play hard for those 16 minutes and that's what we tried to do. We just didn't play our game in the beginning at all. We were half-playing at the start and we didn't come out ready to play.

Jerry Sloan

We have a little bit of stability, more so than the beginning of the year, so we have a better idea of how to play with each other. But it has taken us a little while to figure that out. Our players have to know who we are playing against, and they have to be ready to play no matter what.

We have a good nucleus and the beginnings of a team, and it is now a case of putting the right people with them.

You are dealing with an unproven prime minister. It's the beginning of a very contentious process. It's very unlikely that all of these issues are going to get resolved by the end of the year.

We wanted to make it so that if you watched Lost from the beginning or if you've never watched the show before you can get into this.

Jeff Davis

We wanted to make a record that challenged kids to listen to it from beginning to end. We wanted them to sit with headphones on and listen to it and read the lyrics, go back to the way it used to be.

We wanted to incorporate the grow-in-four-days game plan, but it didn't work. We are going to go back to our old faithful. I told our kids at the beginning of the year that once you are short, it doesn't matter how much shorter you are, to a certain degree. We are shorter every time. (The Hawks) aren't quite as big as some of the other teams we have faced. But they are substantially bigger than us, and we realize that.

We wanted to go out and exemplify his character. That's what he told us at the beginning of the week get better and try to win the game. That is the ultimate purpose. We went out and played hard and just didn't have enough.

Jason Kenney

We've gotten to a level where the price is beginning to impinge on economic growth. People are starting to worry about a slowdown.

Chris Leonard

We've had it in our heads that this is a big game since the beginning of the season. This is a rivalry game and it's the next game, which is always the biggest. That's all the motivation we need.

We've known from the beginning that she was either a suspect or a victim.

We have been waiting for two things to happen to plan the beginning of our withdrawal.

We have been waiting for Annie's to reopen. It marks the beginning of springtime.

We have been trying to work with students since the beginning of the year, but it hasn't been effective. We have done a whole lot more than is necessary, but we need to look out for the members here and take it to the next level.

We're not beginning from ground zero. They have had a life here in the U.S.

Terry Semel

We're very proud of what we have accomplished so far but fully embrace the belief that we're still at the beginning of significant long-term opportunities.

With the effects of the Gulf Coast Hurricanes wearing off and fuel prices coming back down to more palatable levels, Americans are beginning to view their economic prospects in a more positive light.